James Ford
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 03:22 AM UTC
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How many beers you had tonight Hutchy? I have no idea what you're talking about. But I think I have made my point quite clearly. I even posted a link to a writeup in Atlantic that also underscored what I was trying to say. If you choose not to agree with me, that's your right.
hutch wrote:
Hexenjagd wrote:
I am not an idiot. I have a degree, not that it is anyone's business. I don't think something that should be a HUMAN RIGHT needs to be dictated at the state level. If it was a national law then states couldn't outlaw it and everyone would be happy.
dont take the bait man… ford is a troll..he's going down in flames here so he tries to change the conversation (hey look gang lets talk about ellen! she's a nice lesbian!) or nitpicks about the law (again, trying to change the conversation)… James Ford's exact "reasoning" was used to defend separate but equal….
james ford, you are a bore and a boor. I can see you during WWII : "hey jews don't make a fuss..the nazis they don't like it!"
sweetcell
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 04:39 AM UTC
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Hexenjagd wrote:
If it was a national law then states couldn't outlaw it and everyone would be happy.
first part is true, second part isn't (or wouldn't be). RE: abortion.
atomic
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 02:56 PM UTC
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sweetcell wrote:
Hexenjagd wrote:
If it was a national law then states couldn't outlaw it and everyone would be happy.
first part is true, second part isn't (or wouldn't be). RE: abortion.
The Federal Government has ways of forcing states to do things without making laws or Supreme Court decisions. For example, drinking age is 21 in every state. At one point the Feds made the speed limit 55 in every state. How do they do this. They tax people in your state and then threaten to withold federal spending in your state. Works like a charm.
chaz
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 03:02 PM UTC
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James wrote:
If this wasn't about shoving it in middle America's face (and instead about people wanting a glamorous, Hollywood produced wedding as you propose), there would have been gay AND straight couples getting married.
I didn't see it, but the mass wedding included gay and straight couples. So there.
atomic
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 03:26 PM UTC
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hutch wrote:
chaz wrote:
James wrote:
If this wasn't about shoving it in middle America's face (and instead about people wanting a glamorous, Hollywood produced wedding as you propose), there would have been gay AND straight couples getting married.
I didn't see it, but the mass wedding included gay and straight couples. So there.
James Ford didn't see it either..
Actually, I could see James and his wife splitting their bottle of beer and a box of prunes in their rocking chairs watching the grammies. Then they see the marriage ceremony and are disgusted by gay america not getting married in shame in private.
James Ford
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 03:36 PM UTC
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Well they got that part right then. Good for them.
Still, to me, it was a combination of (likely unsuccessful) political statement and celebrities patting themselves on the back. The gay and straight couples were simple event props.
chaz wrote:
James wrote:
If this wasn't about shoving it in middle America's face (and instead about people wanting a glamorous, Hollywood produced wedding as you propose), there would have been gay AND straight couples getting married.
I didn't see it, but the mass wedding included gay and straight couples. So there.
Brian_Walalce
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 03:41 PM UTC
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I don't think "not allowing homesexuals to marry" is "on the wrong side of history" (I hate that phrase.) I think "Marriage." is "on the wrong side of history." You're married in your heart. You don't need some property dispersion legal document to validate it.
Plus, you know how flighty mos are. They're like hummingbirds. Once there's total marriage equality, the gay marriage divorce rate will outpace the hetero one. Haven't two of the "Mount Rushmore of Acceptable Lesbians" (Melissa Etheridge and Rosie O'Donnell) ALREADY gotten divorced? Even Amber Heard has switched teams back to Johnny "Hair Weave" Depp. I guess filming Martin Amis's masterpiece will do that to you. The fancy, script writing is on the wall.
Can we get back to MORE disgusting display of whoremanship at the Grammies? Trent Reznor bitching about his jam being cut off? Really, Trent? You're shocked that the Grammies don't give two shits about an alternative super group of naked careerists like Josh Homme and Dave Grohl? I think they wouldn't let you finish because they made you be towel boys at Clive Davis's post-Grammy bash.
"And the night ended with a flubbed rock jam: Lindsey Buckingham played the acoustic lick from Fleetwood Mac's "Big Love" while three Nineties greats ? Trent Reznor, Josh Homme, Dave Grohl ? played something mediocre, probably from somebody's new album. It was a relief when the network mercifully cut to the closing credits."
Read more:
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/beyonce-grammy-queen-raise-a-gold-sippy-cup-to-the-nights-big-star-20140127Brian
Brian_Walalce
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 03:46 PM UTC
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James wrote:
Still, to me, it was a combination of (likely unsuccessful) political statement and celebrities patting themselves on the back. The gay and straight couples were simple event props.
If you set aside your reactionary perceived hatred of conservative values and James Ford, I think you'll agree. In a horrible program of patting/blowing each other that's all this was.
It did not do anything for the gay marriage movement. NO ONE sitting at home thought: "If a clearly heterosexual woman like Queen Latifah can accept gay marriage along with that rapper Snow then maybe I can open my heart a little and accept it too!"
I mean, fucking Madonna was involved! That's proof that's it's self-congratulatory nonsense.
Brian
atomic
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 04:04 PM UTC
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hutch wrote:
atomic wrote:
hutch wrote:
chaz wrote:
James wrote:
If this wasn't about shoving it in middle America's face (and instead about people wanting a glamorous, Hollywood produced wedding as you propose), there would have been gay AND straight couples getting married.
I didn't see it, but the mass wedding included gay and straight couples. So there.
James Ford didn't see it either..
Actually, I could see James and his wife splitting their bottle of beer and a box of prunes in their rocking chairs watching the grammies. Then they see the marriage ceremony and are disgusted by gay america not getting married in shame in private.
No. He said he didnt see it..his reaction is based on something he read..
he's really a grade A buffoon.
Oh I guess that is how he forms all his opinions.
James Ford
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 04:17 PM UTC
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I watched this.
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/01/video-macklemore-grammys-wedding-34-couples-gay-marriageYou didn't watch World War 2, yet you seem to have an opinion on Hitler. Guess that makes you a buffoon too.
hutch wrote:
atomic wrote:
hutch wrote:
chaz wrote:
James wrote:
If this wasn't about shoving it in middle America's face (and instead about people wanting a glamorous, Hollywood produced wedding as you propose), there would have been gay AND straight couples getting married.
I didn't see it, but the mass wedding included gay and straight couples. So there.
James Ford didn't see it either..
Actually, I could see James and his wife splitting their bottle of beer and a box of prunes in their rocking chairs watching the grammies. Then they see the marriage ceremony and are disgusted by gay america not getting married in shame in private.
No. He said he didnt see it..his reaction is based on something he read..
he's really a grade A buffoon.
i am gay and i like cats
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 04:26 PM UTC
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i wish all of you, could be gay for one year. no, five years. and make it when you went to high school and the end of middle school. then you would realize. not just talking about it, attempting to understand. you would realize. i wish you could see the looks my partner and i get when people realize we are gay, when we are in public. i wish you could go through life finding out what people say behind your backs, after they act all "open arm" "give me a hug" "so great to see you" to your face. i wish you could feel the emotion i go through when i read what people say in comment sections of articles when ever the article is anything about anything gay. i wish you grew up with almost every religion on the planet (meaning you jews, meaning you muslims, meaning you christians, meaning you hindus, meaning you native american indians) thinking gays are wrong and evil and what is horrible with world. thank god for taoist who believe in acceptance of everyone, but when was the last time you even met a tao? then nobody would care what gay people are doing. this topic would not even be talked about on a nine thirty club forum. people would be like, really, this is an issue, i remember the time when i was gay, for those five years, in high school and at the end of middle school.
atomic
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 04:37 PM UTC
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James wrote:
I watched this.
http://www.motherjones.com/mixed-media/2014/01/video-macklemore-grammys-wedding-34-couples-gay-marriage
You didn't watch World War 2, yet you seem to have an opinion on Hitler. Guess that makes you a buffoon too.
hutch wrote:
atomic wrote:
hutch wrote:
chaz wrote:
James wrote:
If this wasn't about shoving it in middle America's face (and instead about people wanting a glamorous, Hollywood produced wedding as you propose), there would have been gay AND straight couples getting married.
I didn't see it, but the mass wedding included gay and straight couples. So there.
James Ford didn't see it either..
Actually, I could see James and his wife splitting their bottle of beer and a box of prunes in their rocking chairs watching the grammies. Then they see the marriage ceremony and are disgusted by gay america not getting married in shame in private.
No. He said he didnt see it..his reaction is based on something he read..
he's really a grade A buffoon.
The one thing about Hitler, if he didn't exist I am sure neither would I.
James Ford
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 04:45 PM UTC
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I'm glad I now know the one thing about Hitler!
Walky, have you ever considered moving to more gay-friendly environs? And ye, organized religions suck.
Brian_Walalce
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Re: A Various Random Thoughts Thread
January 28, 2014 at 04:49 PM UTC
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walkonby wrote:
i wish all of you, could be gay for one year. no, five years.
OMG! That would rock! To have AWESOME abs for five years?!?!
Listen, we all had it tough in Middle/High School. I was an out fan of Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance. We've ALL suffered.
Brian